A search of previously published catalogues yielded a number of prior
identifications of some of our objects. The sources of these
alternative designations are listed below. A tremendous amount of time
was required to make these inter-comparisons of catalogues, but rather
than have every user of the Catalogue perform the same task we have
made the effort to be as complete as possible. That is not to say that
our identifications are totally complete or absolutely correct in all
cases. We tended to err on the generous side when establishing
correspondence between two catalogues. This is because in some cases
the co-ordinates are not well determined in the original listing or
the object may be a specific member of a wider group whose position is
different by a few minutes of arc. Readers are therefore cautioned to
use the alternative designations with just care. If an identification
is crucial to some study, then the original reference and the survey
copies themselves should be consulted directly; what we are offering
is the first step in that procedure.
A: Objects listed in the Second Reference Catalogue of Bright
Galaxies
[RC2] by
de Vaucouleurs, de
Vaucouleurs and Corwin (1964),
having no
previous identification, were listed by those authors as anonymous,
but with a designation following the Parkes scheme as adopted in the
present Catalogue (e.g., AM 1113-334 = A 1113-33).
Ag: Aguero (1971)
searched for peculiar galaxies using print copies of
the Palomar Sky Survey fields centered on declination -42 degrees.
Fifty percent of his interesting galaxies are also contained and
cross-referenced in the present Catalogue (e.g.,
AM 2240-400 = Ag-75).
Be: In his catalogue,
Bergvall (1981)
lists some four hundred
interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ESO
Blue Survey. Approximately sixty percent of the objects thought by
Bergvall to be of interest are also included in the present Catalogue
(e.g., AM 2227-613 = B 2227-612). When there was
insufficient room to
put the entire co-ordinate name given by Bergvall we simply placed
[Be] in the space available.
DDO: The dwarf galaxies listed by
van den Bergh (1959)
overlap to some
small degree with those discovered in the course of this survey (e.g.,
AM 0907-224 = DDO 56) but in general the two studies are
complementary, covering the northern and southern hemispheres
respectively.
DN: Duus and
Newall (1977)
compiled and classified nearly 900 groups
and clusters of galaxies south of declination -27 degrees; 710 of the
clusters were newly discovered (e.g.,
AM 0001-531 = DN 0001-533 = R 3).
ES0: Identifications from Holmberg, Lauberts, Schuster and West
(1974a,
1974b,
1975,
1977,
1978a,
1978b,
1980)
are designated by the
field number, followed by G or IG (ie, Galaxy or Interacting Galaxy,
respectively), and their running number (e.g.,
AM 0241-614 = 115-IG-26).
Fa: The first five lists of galaxies with compact and bright nuclei
found by Fairall
(1977,
1979,
1980,
1981,
1983,
1984)
are also
included in the cross-referencing, although the co-ordinates quoted by
Fairall, especially in his early lists, are apparently quite rough
approximations (e.g., AM 1004-424 = Fa 426).
Ka: A number of dwarf galaxies in the catalogue of
Karachentseva (1973)
are sufficiently far south so as to have been included in our
survey as well (e.g., AM 2318-420 = Ka-57).
Ko: Since the publication of the main reference catalogue on planetary
nebulae by
Perek and Kohoutek (1967)
a number of additional planetary nebulae have been published by Kohoutek
(1971,
1977)
(e.g., AM 1032-285 = = Ko-28).
Lo: After inspecting the UK Schmidt survey plates,
Longmore (1977)
published a list of new and suspected planetary nebulae which we
cross-reference in our Catalogue (e.g., AM 1111-474 = Lo-5).
Lu: In the course of inspecting the Yale-Columbia proper-motion plates
for radio source identifications
Lu (1971)
noted a number of
interesting systems in the southern hemisphere. Approximately forty
percent of these objects were also classified as peculiar in our
survey (e.g., AM 2047-330 = Lu 2047-33).
MC: A search of the IIIa-J plates by
Malin and Carter
(1983) for
elliptical galaxies with shells resulted in the publication of a list
of 137 candidates for further study (e.g.,
AM 0610-623 = MC 0610-625).
MCG: The Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies compiled by
Vorontsov-Velyaminov
and Krasnogorskaya (1962),
Vorontsov-Velyaminov and Arkhipova
(1963,
1964,
1968,
1974)
overlaps in small measure with
our survey and cross-references were taken primarily from the work of
Lauberts (1982)
(e.g., AM 0530-293 = MCG 5-14-2).
NGC/IC: New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue
object positions were taken from
Lauberts (1982)
(e.g., AM 0242-600 = NGC 1096).
PKS: Possible radio identifications were searched out using the
Parkes Radio Source Catalogue
(Ekers 1969)
and a master-list of the New
Parkes Catalogue provided by the staff of the ROE; these
identifications are the most tentative (e.g.,
AM 2020-370 = PKS 2020-370).
PK: To guard against the inclusion of planetary nebulae in the compact
galaxy class,
Perek and Kohoutek (1967)
was consulted and coincidences
reclassified and extracted from the Catalogue; objects thought to be
planetary nebulae, based on their morphology, but without prior
identification, have been left in the Catalogue as they may prove in
fact to be extragalactic (e.g.,
AM 1347-505 = PK 312+10-1).
R: Rose (1976)
lists 124 probable clusters of galaxies found by him in
selected areas around the south galactic pole (e.g.,
AM 2222-572 = R 75).
Se: Sersic (1974)
gives a selected list of peculiar galaxies and
groups found on his own survey plates (e.g.,
AM 2046-473 = Se 143/3).
SS: For a comparison with a complete survey of E and SO galaxies
Sadler and Sharp (1984)
compiled a subset of relatively isolated
binary pairs consisting of these early type galaxies (e.g.,
AM 1113-333 = SS 10a).
To: Emission line objects found in the Tololo/Curtis Schmidt
Survey have been published by
Smith, Aquirre and
Zemelman (1976).
We find that approximately thirty percent of their objects have
identifications in our Catalogue (e.g.,
AM 1348-333 = To 1348-335).
UKS: The published lists of low-surface-brightness galaxies in the
general field given by Longmore et al.
(1978,
1982),
and the list of
dwarfs in the NGC 5128 Group found by
Webster et al. (1979),
were consulted for comparison with our dwarf galaxies. Both lists are
identified by the same prefix (e. g.,
AM 1346-354 = UKS 1346-358).
vdB: Several planetary nebulae are listed in the paper by
van den Bergh et al.
(1973)
and are cross-referenced here for completeness
(e.g., AM 1340-603 = vdB-5).
VV: After searching paper copies of the Palomar Observatory Sky
Survey,
Vorontsov-Velyaminov
(1959)
issued an Atlas and Catalogue of
Interacting Galaxies some of which are sufficiently far south to
overlap with our new survey (e.g.,
AM 2225-250 = VV 74a/b).
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